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Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States, Joanna M. Shepherd
Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States, Joanna M. Shepherd
Michigan Law Review
Policymakers' false beliefs about capital punishment's universal deterrent effect may have caused many people to die needlessly. If deterrence is capital punishment's purpose then, in the majority of states where executions do not deter crime, executions kill convicts uselessly. Moreover, in the many states where the brutalization effect outweighs the deterrent effect, executions not only kill convicts needlessly but also induce the additional murders of many innocent people. After Part II discusses capital punishment's recent history in the United States, Part III reviews the conflict in recent studies on capital punishment and deterrence. Part IV explores differences in states' applications …
The Chair, The Needle, And The Damage Done: What The Electric Chair And The Rebirth Of The Method-Of-Execution Challenge Could Mean For The Future Of The Eighth Amendment, Timothy S. Kearns
The Chair, The Needle, And The Damage Done: What The Electric Chair And The Rebirth Of The Method-Of-Execution Challenge Could Mean For The Future Of The Eighth Amendment, Timothy S. Kearns
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
No abstract provided.
Reliability Matters: Reassociating Bagley Materality, Strickland Prejudice, And Cumulative Harmless Error, John H. Blume, Christopher W. Seeds
Reliability Matters: Reassociating Bagley Materality, Strickland Prejudice, And Cumulative Harmless Error, John H. Blume, Christopher W. Seeds
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Most commonly invoked after conviction and direct appeal, when a defendant may claim that his lawyer was ineffective or that the government failed to disclose exculpatory information, the Brady doctrine, which governs the prosecutor’s duty to disclose favorable evidence to the defense, and the Strickland doctrine, which monitors defense counsel’s duty to represent the client effectively, have developed into the principal safeguards of fair trials, fundamental to the protection of defendants’ constitutional rights and arguably defendants’ strongest insurance of a reliable verdict. But the doctrines do not sufficiently protect these core values.
The doctrines, despite their common due process heritage …
The Innocence Protection Act Of 2004: A Small Step Forward And A Framework For Larger Reforms, Ronald Weich
The Innocence Protection Act Of 2004: A Small Step Forward And A Framework For Larger Reforms, Ronald Weich
All Faculty Scholarship
Passage of the Innocence Protection Act in the closing days of the 108th Congress was a watershed moment. To be sure, the bill that finally became law was a shadow of the more ambitious criminal justice reforms first championed five years earlier by Senator Pat Leahy, Congressman Bill Delahunt and others. But the enactment of legislation designed to strengthen — not weaken — procedural protections for death row inmates was rich in symbolic importance and promise.
Writing in the April 2001 issue of THE CHAMPION (Innocence Protection Act: Death Penalty Reform on the Horizon), I said optimistically: "The criminal justice …
Killing The Willing: "Volunteers," Suicide And Competency, John H. Blume
Killing The Willing: "Volunteers," Suicide And Competency, John H. Blume
Michigan Law Review
When my client Robert South decided to waive his appeals so that his death sentence could be carried out, I understood why he might make that choice. Robert had a brain tumor that could not be surgically removed. Though not fatal, the tumor disrupted his sleep/wake cycle and had other negative physical consequences, including severe headaches, for his daily existence. He also had chronic post-traumatic stress disorder ("PTSD"), resulting from a profound history of childhood physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Robert suffered from daily recurrent flashbacks of the abuse. He had been on death row for almost a decade, and …
Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States, Joanna M. Shepherd
Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States, Joanna M. Shepherd
Faculty Articles
Recent empirical studies by economists have shown, without exception, that capital punishment deters crime. Using large data sets that combine information from all fifty states over many years, the studies show that, on average, an additional execution deters many murders. The studies have received much publicity, and death penalty advocates often cite them to show that capital punishment is sound policy.
Indeed, deterrence is the central basis that many policymakers and courts cite for capital punishment. For example, President Bush believes that capital punishment deters crime and that deterrence is the only valid reason for capital punishment. Likewise, the Supreme …
Expert Testimony In Capital Sentencing: Juror Responses, John H. Montgomery, J. Richard Ciccone, Stephen P. Garvey, Theodore Eisenberg
Expert Testimony In Capital Sentencing: Juror Responses, John H. Montgomery, J. Richard Ciccone, Stephen P. Garvey, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia (1972), held that the death penalty is constitutional only when applied on an individualized basis. The resultant changes in the laws in death penalty states fostered the involvement of psychiatric and psychologic expert witnesses at the sentencing phase of the trial, to testify on two major issues: (1) the mitigating factor of a defendant’s abnormal mental state and (2) the aggravating factor of a defendant’s potential for future violence. This study was an exploration of the responses of capital jurors to psychiatric/psychologic expert testimony during capital sentencing. The Capital Jury Project is …
Death Sentence Rates And County Demographics: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg
Death Sentence Rates And County Demographics: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The number of murders in a state largely determines the size of a state's death row. The more murders, the larger the death row. This fundamental relation yields surprising results, including the newsworthy finding that Texas's death sentencing rate is not unusually high. Recent state-level research also underscores the importance of race in the demography of death row. Death penalty research has long emphasized race's role, and with good reason--a racial hierarchy exists in death sentence rates. Black defendants who murder white victims receive death sentences at the highest rate; white defendants who murder white victims receive death sentences at …
Forensic Science Or Forgettable Science?, Craig M. Cooley
Forensic Science Or Forgettable Science?, Craig M. Cooley
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
Procedural Default In Capital Cases, F. Thomas Schornhorst
Procedural Default In Capital Cases, F. Thomas Schornhorst
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
The Value Of Procedure, Stephen R. Creason
The Value Of Procedure, Stephen R. Creason
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
Consistency, Proportionality, And Substantive Judicial Review In Capital Sentencing, H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr.
Consistency, Proportionality, And Substantive Judicial Review In Capital Sentencing, H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr.
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
Changing The Role Of Appellate Judges In Capital Cases, Sam Kamin
Changing The Role Of Appellate Judges In Capital Cases, Sam Kamin
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
Concluding Remarks, Joseph L. Hoffmann
Concluding Remarks, Joseph L. Hoffmann
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
Prosecuting Saddam: The Coalition Provisional Authority And The Evolution Of The Iraqi Special Tribunal, Tom Parker
Prosecuting Saddam: The Coalition Provisional Authority And The Evolution Of The Iraqi Special Tribunal, Tom Parker
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Substantive Appellate Review In Capital Cases, Joseph L. Hoffmann
Substantive Appellate Review In Capital Cases, Joseph L. Hoffmann
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report.
Capitalizing Adolescence: Juvenile Offenders On Death Row, Mary Berkheiser
Capitalizing Adolescence: Juvenile Offenders On Death Row, Mary Berkheiser
Scholarly Works
Taking as its sample group the 2005 population of seventy-two juvenile offenders on death row, this article examines the roles of peer influence and group offending in the murders committed by those now awaiting execution. Based on that examination, the article suggests certain reforms in the capital trials of juveniles. To set the stage, the article first marshals the evidence supporting the “group crime” theory of youth violence and then discusses the critical role of peers in adolescent development and group offending of a violent crime.
Revisiting Robinson: The Eighth Amendment As Constitutional Support For Theories Of Criminal Responsibility, Jeffrey A. Rowe
Revisiting Robinson: The Eighth Amendment As Constitutional Support For Theories Of Criminal Responsibility, Jeffrey A. Rowe
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
The 'Wildavsky Heuristic': The Cultural Orientation Of Mass Political Opinion, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic
The 'Wildavsky Heuristic': The Cultural Orientation Of Mass Political Opinion, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In a provocative 1987 article, Aaron Wildavsky asserted that culture operates as the fundamental orienting force in the generation of mass public opinion. The meanings and interpersonal associations that inhere in discrete ways of life, he argued, shape the heuristic processes by which politically unsophisticated individuals, in particular, choose what policies and candidates to support. We systematize Wildavsky's theory and integrate it with existing accounts of mass opinion formation. We also present the results of an original national survey (N = 1843), which found that the cultural orientations featured in Wildavsky's writings accounted for policy-related attitudes on gun control, environment, …
Consistency, Proportionality, And Substantive Judicial Review In Capital Sentencing, Geoff Moulton
Consistency, Proportionality, And Substantive Judicial Review In Capital Sentencing, Geoff Moulton
Geoff Moulton
No abstract provided.